Myanmar’s Digital Insurgents Have Finally Found a Way to Hurt the Junta

This story was produced in partnership with Coda Story. One month after Myanmar's military seized power in a bloodless coup and declared a year-long state of emergency, daily protests continue to shake cities and towns across the country. Now, in addition to taking their anger to the streets, an underground movement of pro-democracy activists has unleashed a raft of new digital tools on the armed forces and police. Myanmar's powerful military has long maintained a tight grip on the country's finances by investing in a number of lucrative sectors, including mining, tobacco, garment manufacturing, and banking. The Feb. 1 power grab, which ousted the elected government of leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has highlighted ties to a number of businesses. International and local companies with links to the security forces have come under growing pressure from activists who say the firms are complicit in war crimes committed by the armed forces. A recent Amnesty International investigation found that shareholders in a secretive business conglomerate called Myanma Economic Holdings Limited—which is linked to international businesses such as the Japanese drinks giant Kirin Holdings and INNO Group, a South Korean property developer—have received payments of up to $18 billion over 20 years…. Read full this story

• US Senate primary in Tennessee pits Trump's candidate against conservative insurgency
• We need to address the digital divide causing an educational crisis
• Bangladesh Calls for Financial Sanctions on Myanmar, as Country Pushes for Rohingya Repatriation
• “Facebook Is Hurting People At Scale”: Mark Zuckerberg’s Employees Reckon With The Social Network They’ve Built
• Furious Kylie Jenner insists she did NOT spin a 'web of lies' or forge tax documents after Forbes' bombshell claims she faked her way to billionaire status
• Modi govt’s Act East policy boosts development, security but challenges lie ahead
• The GOP’s Dirty War
• VIETNAM'S BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES JULY 26
• The Truth About the Tea Party
• When Facebook ‘Disrupts’ Journalism, It Degrades Our Democracy
• Coronavirus: Police predict the emergence of a new group of criminals post Covid-19
• Experts say 4G has made IUC a relic that needs quick burial

Myanmar’s Digital Insurgents Have Finally Found a Way to Hurt the Junta have 788 words, post on www.thedailybeast.com at March 5, 2021. This is cached page on Smart Prices. If you want remove this page, please contact us.